The Choice: Islam and Christianity

164 Crucifixion or Cruci-fiction?

Jews as a people, as a whole, in rejecting Jesus, the son of Mary,
as their promised Messiah — “ The eternal rejection/’

IMAGINATIVE VERSION

This harrowing sob-story, the blood-curdling cries and lamen­
tations would evoke sympathy in the hardest of hearts. And the
hot-gospeller and the Bible-thumper is not averse to its effective
exploitation. We are told that Jesus was destined to die for the
sins of mankind. That he was “being prepared for this vicarious
sacrifice before the foundation of the world”. That even before
the material universe came into being, there was a contract
between “Father and son,” and that in the year 4000 A.A. (After
Adam)1, God himself in the form of )esus, as the second person
from the enigmatic Trinity2, was to get himself hanged to
redeem mankind from the Original Sin and their actual sins.

JESUS UNAWARE OF HEAVENLY CONTRACT

From the “call to arms" in the upper-room, and the masterful

deployment of forces at Gethsemane, and the blood-sweating

prayer to the God of Mercy for help, it appears that Jesus knew

nothing about the contract for his crucifixion. It reminds one of

the Biblical Abraham, leading his son to the slaughter with the

bluff that the Lord will provide a ‘scapegoat.1

AN UNWILLING VICTIM

If this was God’s plan for a vicarious atonement to redeem

mankind, then obviously He had chosen a wrong substitute. This

1. According to Christian calculations the world and everything in it is 6000 years old.


2. “Trinity”: The closest approximation to the Christian dogma of the trinity as found in
   the Bible — “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
   Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (1st Epistle of John 5:7) -
   has now been unceremoniously thrown out as fabrication in the R.S.V.. the most up-to
   date translation of the Bible. Write for your FREE copy of — “Is the Bible God’s
   Word?” from the Centre, for further Biblical interpolations.